The Life of the Characters in Sydney Pollack's Works

Sydney Pollack 1934 was born in America. At the age of 2/kloc-0, he has stepped onto the Broadway stage. 1965, he directed the first film of his life, Thin Line. So far, he has directed 19 films, although his film output is not very large. However, most of these films have gone down in history and become masterpieces in American film history. He is very good at reflecting the political problems in today's society and exposing some social realities, such as shooting horses and sugar-coated traps. He is even more adept at movies about love, and his performance is not bad. Romantic comedies such as My Fair Lady and Love in Paris attracted many audiences. Out of Africa (1985) reached the peak of his career. With this film, he won the Oscar for best director for the first time. On May 26th, 2008, he died at his home in Bariside, Southern California, at the age of 73.

Pollack was born in lafayette, Indiana, USA on July 1934. His parents divorced, and Pollack's father died at the age of 37, when Pollack was only 16. During the period from 1952 to 1954, Pollack went to the neighborhood theater drama school to study acting, and later began to stay as a teacher, and his film career began.

At the age of 24, Pollack became a TV actor because he appeared in a TV series directed by john frank Hammer. 196 1 year, he finally got a job in the film industry, that is, as a dialogue teacher in Frank Hammer's crime film Young Barbarian. Since then, he has directed several TV series, and in 1965, that is, at the age of 3 1, he sat in the director's chair and made his first film, Thin Line.

What really made Pollack stand firm in Hollywood was 1966' s "This property is Condemend". Three years later, he made a real breakthrough, that is, the sensational "They shot horses, didn't they?" ), starring and, Yang won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, while Pollack and Fonda were nominated for Best Director and Best Actress respectively. Together, a film starring barbra streisand and robert redford, was the most successful serious film in 1970s, which once again proved Pollack's superb directing skills. Soon, he turned to action movies and made Yamaguchi Group.

1975, Pollack co-produced Three Days of the Condor with Redford again, which is a post-Watergate thriller, which not only attracted genre fans, but also moved mainstream audiences and became a model of blockbusters in the 1970s. During this period, Pollack was very popular in Hollywood, and he cooperated with top stars such as paul newman and Fay Donnelly.

From 65438 to 0982, Pollack and dustin hoffman co-produced the comedy My Fair Lady, which was not only a blockbuster of that year, but also won Pollack another Oscar nomination for best director. However, for him personally, "Out of Africa" three years later is obviously more significant. This film, which cooperated with old friend robert redford and acting star Meryl Streep, finally won him an Oscar for best director. However, after a while, his career fell into a trough.

However, on 1993, he made a comeback with his office. Unfortunately, his two films Sabrina and Random Heart were fiasco, which seems to indicate that the golden age of Hollywood gold medal directors has passed. But Pollack found new fun in the performance. He starred in Woody Allen's Husband and Wife, and played the leading role in stanley kubrick's Eyes Wide shut.

In the 265438+20th century, Pollack co-founded a production company with British director anthony minghella. He focused on becoming a producer and made the films Quiet America and Cold Mountain. In 2005, unwilling to be lonely, he directed Guanzi again and filmed Translator. Pollack last appeared in front of the camera in last year's michael crichton, in which he played an old lawyer.

Among Sydney Pollack's works, 19 films * * * were nominated for 46 Oscars, including 3 nominations for best director and 2 nominations for best film. His Out of Africa won seven Oscars, and Pollack himself won the best director and the best film award.

Among the many classic films in which Pollack is the director and producer, there are countless other awards besides the Oscar Award, the New York Film Critics Association Award, the authoritative award of Italian film industry, the David Di Donatello Award, the Golden Globe Award, the National Film Critics Association Award, and the film festivals in Brussels, Belgrade, San Sebastian and Moscow. Pollack became a member of the jury of Cannes Film Festival in 1973 and was promoted to the chairman of the jury in 1986. In recognition of his outstanding achievements, the French government awarded him the honorary title of Art and Literature Association.

In the list selected by the Motion Picture Association of America, Mr. Duse (1982) ranked second in the list of "Best Comedy in Film History", and Out of Africa and Feelings of the Past were also shortlisted as "0/00 Romances in Film History". In 2000, Pollack was awarded the john huston Prize by the American Directors Association.

On the afternoon of May 26th, 2008, Pollack died of cancer at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 73. His last directorial work was The Translation Storm in 2005.